US Vice President JD Vance has said that Washington has not set a deadline for the disarmament of Hamas set out in the US-brokered ceasefire deal in Gaza, AFP reports.

“We know that Hamas has to comply with the deal and if Hamas doesn’t comply with the deal, very bad things are going to happen, but I’m not going to do what the president of the United States has thus far refused to do, which is put an explicit deadline on it because a lot of this stuff is difficult,” Vance said during a press conference in Kiryat Gat, southern Israel, where a US-led mission is monitoring the Gaza ceasefire.